Santarém, Brazil: Campers see disc shine a beam on the Rio Tapajós, move along the shore
At 11:00 p.m. one night in January 1980, a Brazilian electronics businessman and nine others camping on a beach of the Rio Tapajós 30 miles south of Santarém, Brazil, saw a disc-shaped object cross the river and move north along the shore, shining a light beam straight down onto the water.
Background
At 11:00 p.m. a Brazilian electronics businessman and 9 others saw a disc-shaped object shine a light down on the water near the eastern bank of the Rio Tapajós, 30 miles south of Santarém, Brazil, where the man, his family and some relatives were camping on a beach. Several teenagers still awake in their hammocks saw the object come across the river and stop about 30 yards from the beach, shining a light on the water 60 feet below. It hovered briefly, then moved north parallel to the shore for more than half a mile with the spotlight shining straight down before it disappeared. The light beam left a trail of luminescence for several hundred yards. Eberhart cites Bob Pratt's UFO Danger Zone (1996) and Carl W. Feindt in International UFO Reporter (December 2010). The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.